Wichita State University

Multi-Institutional Data for Faculty Well-Being Improvements Within and Across Medical Schools

Importance Burnout, engagement, and satisfaction vary in prevalence and correlate with organizational performance in US medical colleges. Large-scale improvements have been elusive. Objective To quantify rates of well-being and its organizational correlates so to help identify op...

AI as Market Infrastructure: How Misinformation and Automation Inequality Shape Democratic Performance and Economic Wellbeing

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the market-organizing infrastructures that coordinate exchange, reshaping consumer information environments and the allocation of economic value. Drawing on marketing systems theory and consumer emancipation scholarship, we theorize pe...

Electrospun Nanofiber Therapeutics for Localized Post-Surgical Breast Cancer Treatment

Adjuvant therapy following breast cancer surgery remains challenged by systemic toxicity, poor tumor accuracy, and tumor recurrence. Electrospun nanofibers have emerged to address these concerns. Their high surface area, tunable porosity, and controlled drug release properties en...

Automated lung tumor segmentation using enhanced U-Net architectures: a multi-backbone comparative study for clinical applications

Lung cancer remains a leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide, and manual delineation of tumors on computed tomography (CT) is time-consuming and prone to inter-observer variability. This study systematically evaluates nine deep learning configurations for automated l...

XL-MS and De Novo Protein Design Identified a Common Motif for TREM2 Binding

Abstract Apolipoprotein E (APOE) and triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) are the two strongest genetic risk factors of late-onset Alzheimer’s disease. ApoE binds to the low-density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR) to facilitate the uptake of ApoE-lipoprotein parti...

$${\mathbb {Z}}_{p}$$-Torus Actions on Positively Curved Manifolds

Abstract In this article, we study closed, positively curved n -manifolds that admit an effective, isometric $${\mathbb {Z}}_{p}^r$$ Z p r -action with a fixed point, where p is an odd prime. For all sufficiently large n , we obtain a symmetry rank bound in Theorem A that improve...

Numerical investigation of ground effect on a toroidal propeller

In this study, a numerical investigation is conducted to examine propeller performance, flow physics, and aeroacoustic signatures of a toroidal propeller in ground effect (IGE). Delayed Detached Eddy Simulation (DDES) is employed to resolve propeller performance, flow structures,...

Role of the School Nurse in Providing School Health Services: Policy Statement

School nursing has evolved into an essential field bridging health care and education. School nurses play multifaceted roles, addressing direct care, care coordination, public health, leadership, and quality improvement. They manage communicable diseases, chronic conditions, ment...

Advanced hybrid nanofiltration membranes enabled by dual-zwitterionic locking for salt and heavy metal removal

The development of nanofiltration (NF) membranes is critical for achieving sustainable water purification and resource recovery. However, conventional polyamide NF membranes often encounter trade-offs between ion selectivity and water permeability. Herein, we introduce a dual-zwi...